September 2012
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
12h 32m
English

We live and die by timecode.
Ray Volkema, editor, HD Net Concerts
If cameras, switchers, recording decks, and monitors are the skeleton of a multicam shoot, then timecode and sync are the central nervous system. Timecode is a sequence of binary coded decimals generated at regular intervals and used to label individual frames of video or film with a unique address consisting of the hour, minute, second, and frame number. It's a form of metadata defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) as a master clock that enables the synchronization of editing and camera switching equipment.1 Timecode numbers are ...
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